“The battleground of enterprise security has shifted from network and endpoint protection to identity and access,” says Garg.

“Obsidian has built a much needed next-generation identity protection solution. They’ve embedded cutting-edge machine learning techniques to help organizations protect their users and critical applications.”

"Obsidian is focused on making identity a security advantage as enterprises move to hybrid architectures,” says Obsidian CEO and co-founder Glenn Chisholm.

Obsidian is a provider of identity protection for the hybrid enterprise.

Obsidian enables organisations to protect their users and critical SaaS and cloud assets with rich new visibility, smarter and less burdensome identity lifecycle management, and efficient incident response and forensics.

At the core of Obsidian’s machine learning powered offering is an identity graph.

The identity graph maps an organisation’s users to the assets for which they have permissions and is enriched with information about what users have done with their assets.

The company’s leadership team includes innovators from AWS, Carbon Black, Cylance, Dome9, the NSA and VMware.